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This week I was cross examined for hours about the abuse that happened to me as a teenager. My sister was raped by the same man (she was 9) – my mother actually admitted that she had sent me upstairs to go and get in bed with him. He admitted to taking topless photos of me. He still had photos of me in his home (I’m 48 years old now).
Yet he was found not guilty today!!!!

I feel there is just no justice. I wonder if this travesty could have happened because the media still portrays the victims of these crimes as in some way responsible for what happens to them. I’m so sick of rape culture, the way that people laugh or make rape jokes. I am so sick of the system that continues to fail us.

We are not responsible for what happens to us.

Tomorrow I’ll start to pull myself together and try and go forwards again. For tonight I’ll just carry on sobbing and wondering how the jury could let that monster get away with it.

Would I go to the police again if I had known what the outcome would be? I honestly don’t know. I guess I’ll sleep better at night for knowing at least I tried.